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politicsnation. tonights lead, a solemn anniversary. ♪ ♪ ♪ it has been four years to the day since and ceramicists stormed the u.s. capitol in former president donald trumps name. and despite the horrors of that day, very little has changed in our politics. capital rioters are still being brought to justice three years later. just this morning, three january 6th fugitives were arrested by the fbi in florida. and with just days before our first presidential nominating contest of t...

that democrat josh shapiro when the governors race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq pennsylvanias are likely to gain new protections and police reform, gun control measures, green energy measures, could be on the table. in short, as wed like to say every time on this show, every election matters when the vote count. coming up on the second hour of a...

the other two won the races by 50 and 75 points. for months on this show, we have been covering the chaos that ensued when due to a series of unexpected issues, three seats won by democrats in the november elections were left vacant. pennsylvania republicans took that opportunity to in effect, steal their way to a majority in the state house. clearly ignoring the will of the people by pretending that they had a majority while those seats remained unfilled. but now that those special el...

that valona today was his 94th birthday, he dedicated his life to make sure that this nations founding ideals and principles applied equally to african americans. and as a nation honors in this holiday weekend we are reminded just how far weve come and how far we still have to go. the country remains deeply divided on many important, issues of factor flecked it by the new congress. in their first full week as a majority in the house republican zeroed a -- in the last week, republicans ...

Going. and you look at these poll numbers, and we all know where this is going. and i think the question micah is how long does tim scott, again, somebody i have that is a very strong candidate, how long this temps got humiliate himself by pretending the donald trump did nothing wrong? only to see me lead himself by talking about hunter biden taking seven billion dollars and saying nothing about jared kushners three billion dollars. only one person and that is coming from the united states, and ...

Classified documents snafu. the problem here fundamentally is that this is the republican playbook if there is a democratic president, it is to try to trump up, part the fund, some mock scandals and this case it is hunter biden. four years ago during the obama presidency, it wouldve benghazi nothing burger during bill clinton it was the whitewater case and later the lewinsky situation, which was -- on behalf of any of the presidencies, so i think whether it is mike pence taking on the subpoena, ...

Presidencies, so i think whether it is mike pence taking on the subpoena, trump ignoring subpoenas the real problem will come if and when the indictment start to come down for the big fish front-runner six. i think to the extent that republicans will try to use this period while the control the maturity to muddy the waters, create false equivalencys, lets be clear there is no equivalency between anything that hunter biden did and what the perpetrators of an attempt to overthrow the government le...

Dangerous what donald trump did. were going to see false equivalencys for the republican party. and so sadly, this document taking from vice president biden is going to be a distraction. hunter biden obviously will be a distraction as well. he never made a hundreds of millions of dollars like jared and ivanka. jared kushner couldnt even get a security clearance yet and still -- still in the west wing doing with sensitive documents. even though countless individuals told the trump administration ...

We only have, really, for all intensive purposes to parties. we are not like germany, we are not like other countries in europe that have many parties. i wish we did have a multi party system, but we dont. this is the system we have. given the system we have, we have to recognize that we need to take not only the independents, the moderates, the swing voters, fewer and fewer of them by the way, but we also have to mobilize our base. we have to make sure that we are being respectful to our base w...

A few months earlier, they said you know, your left and bernie sanders would be considered moderate here, because we have all of those things. lashes be clear about that. i would appreciate you pointing out the ridiculousness of false equivalencys. >> what about the increasing rural and urban divide? the fact is that democrats are able to win some of these races because of suchs port in urban senators which are increasingly growing. but when you become a party that is largely centered in urban p...